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Kommunalbanken (KBN) are set to price the first five year dollar bond for three weeks on Wednesday while Italy’s 30 year bond was the first SSA issuance in the tenor for 2016.
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Two banks are working on separate loans for financing to back ChemChina's $43bn cash offer to acquire Swiss company Syngenta. -
The wave of Chinese acquisitions of Western companies has reached a new peak, with confirmation that state-owned ChemChina has sealed the deal to buy Syngenta, the Swiss agrichemicals and seeds business, for $43bn, as China seeks to secure its food supply.
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Turk Eximbank took the emerging markets by surprise this week, jumping in early on Monday to print a $500m five year and reopen Turkey primary bonds this year.
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Kommunalbanken is readying a five year bond in what will be the first dollar benchmark in the tenor for three weeks. Meanwhile, European Investment Bank priced a more conservative three year bond.
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Italy has sold the largest ever 30 year bond in euros, a trade that is likely to inspire other issuers into the tenor amid what some bankers are calling a key time for the SSA market.
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Argentina’s government reopened negotiations with holdout creditors on Monday after securing a $5bn loan from seven global banks last week.
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National Bank of Abu Dhabi has mandated six banks for investor meetings starting February 8.
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Türk Eximbank issued a $500m five year bond on Monday, commanding a $1.09bn book and bringing hope to syndicate officials that more deals from the country may follow.
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SIF, the Dutch maker of components for the offshore wind, oil and gas markets, has set the price range for its all-secondary initial public offering at a level that implies a valuation of €357m-€434m.
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Cardiff University broke the two week silence in Europe's investment grade corporate bond market with a £300m deal on Monday that achieved the lowest coupon ever for a public benchmark bond by a UK university.
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The European Investment Bank is out with a three year dollar benchmark, which bankers away from the deal feel is aggressively priced — although its leads disagreed with that assessment.
